I received the following, from Jim Moore, via the WG9 e-mail list.
It is one of the resolutions passed by WG9 at their meeting last
week, in Villars, Switzerland.	I am forwarding it for your
information, as a a liaison report to WG15 US TAG, and WG15.

--Ted Baker

| 31.  Resolution regarding POSIX.4a
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|      To the chairman of ISO-IEC JTC1/SC22:
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|      WG9 is concerned that the process for international input
|      and coordination of POSIX standards is flawed.  Currently,
|      the responsibility for coordination is delegated to the
|      United States member body and ultimately to the level of the
|      IEEE working group. There is evidence that this method for
|      coordination is not working properly.  In particular, the
|      coordination ballot transmitted from P1003.5 (POSIX/Ada) to
|      P1003.4 (POSIX real time) regarding the P1003.4a (POSIX
|      threads) draft has not been handled in a satisfactory
|      manner.	The result may be a situation where Ada
|      applications may not run on  systems compliant with P1003.4a
|      and where applications compliant with P1003.5 will not
|      interoperate with applications compliant with P1003.4a.
|      Since it is of crucial importance that the separate parts of
|      the POSIX suite of standards be mutually compatible to the
|      greatest possible degree, this is a matter of some urgency.
|      WG9 asks that SC22 take steps to rectify this situation
|      prior to the registration of the P1003.4a document as a
|      Committee Draft.
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|      Copies to:
|      John Hill, US TAG for SC22
|      Jim Isaak, convener of WG15
|      Lorraine Kevra, US TAG for WG15
|      Jim Isaak, chair of IEEE PASC
|      Jim Lonjers, chair of IEEE P1003.5
|      Bill Corwin, chair of IEEE P1003.4